Here's how I installed an SSD in my MacBook Pro. One downside to using a laptop is that you only have one hard drive slot, so upgrading to a super-fast SSD is often either expensive or space limiting.

The MacBook with the SSD upgrade was also 20% faster in Speedmark tests—taking less than half the time to copy a file and significantly faster in other file operations.

A new SSD inside an older iMac, MacBook, Mac mini, or Mac Pro will lead to much faster OS X performance, app loading, restarting, and file accessing.

First, you will need an OWC Aura Pro Express SSD drive, your MacBook Air, an external USB 2.0 backup drive, and pentalobe and T5 torx drivers (included with the Aura Pro Express).

This step by step guide covers how to check if your MacBook Pro is eligible for a free SSD fix if your purchased a 13-inch model between 2017 and 2018.

Only Apple recommends buying its Macs with 128GB of SSD storage, because only Apple is trying to hit a price point. Everyone else — including us — will tell you that you need more, but nobody ...